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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
FREDERICK A. AND SHARON L. KLINGENSTEIN
831
A PAIR OF RARE BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSELS AND PROVENANCE
COVERS ON INTEGRAL STANDS, FANGZUOGUI Kochukyo, Tokyo.
Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection, Hong Kong and San Francisco, by 1988.
MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1995.
Each vessel is supported on an integral, ribbed square stand
pierced on each side with eight square apertures arranged in LITERATURE
rectangular formation. The ribbed body is centered by stylized J. Rawson, The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes,
trilobed lugs and fanked by simple upright loop handles. The Hong Kong, 1988, pl. 30, pp. 82-3.
ribbed cover is surmounted by a ring-from handle. G. Eskenazi with H. Elias, A Dealer’s Hand, The Chinese Art World Through
the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, p. 186, fg. 27.
13æ in. (35 cm.) high (2)
西周中期 青銅直棱紋方坐簋一對
$500,000-700,000

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